Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago nonstop
Yes: American, United and Frontier fly direct from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Chicago (ORD) about 22 times a day, year-round.
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Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 802 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 10 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in August 2026 (155 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (104 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 123 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 136 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 130 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 123 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 104 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 128 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 121 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 132 flights a week
- May 2026: 139 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 149 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 153 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 155 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 63%, United 29%, Frontier 5%, Envoy 3% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 13,536 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $275 one way, median $175. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 13,493 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 13,642 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 10,634 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 13,536 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $175 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth nonstop.
Other airports near Dallas-Fort Worth with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Also nonstop from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 17 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 17 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 17 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 16 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 15 times a day
- Houston (IAH) about 15 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 14 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 13 times a day
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